Word: snow
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard Club in the no. 4 match, 6-15, 15-4, 10-15, 15-13, 15-6. On Saturday H. V. Blaxter, Jr. '33 downed Hicks 3 to 0. J. B. Walker, Jr. '33 won from Sheisler 3 to 2, and J. M. Barnaby, 2d '33 lost to Snow...
...blue flames waved out the windows. Men on the ground were knocked flat. Others were blown from roofs and scaffoldings 200 feet away. Flaming men with clothes and flesh in tatters blindly staggered out of the building, ran screaming off into a fence surrounding the reservation, collapsed in the snow. In a few minutes the fire was out. Casualties: eleven killed; 54 hospitalized. Probable cause: naphtha gas, leaking from a pipe near the alcohol building, had been ignited by a riveter's forge, a plumber's torch, or a gasoline motor-all within 100 yards of the fiery...
Last week after grim weeks of combing the shattered wreckage of their plane (southeast of Cape North, Siberia), the bodies of Carl Ben Eielson and Earl Borland were found by a party of 19 Russians under the direction of Commander Slipenov. Deep in snow and ice lay the bodies, frightfully crushed from the terrific impact of the speeding plane. It had been chartered to unload passengers and furs from the ice bound motorship Nanuk (TIME, Jan. 6). Borland's body was found first, Eielson's several days later. They were taken to the Nanuk, where starts their last...
...evils with the result that a number of Amherst's erstwhile flaming youths are now cooling off in the college infirmary, some of them seriously burned. Moreover, the affair was only prevented from becoming one of the most spectacular slaughters in history by the presence of several inches of snow, and since the rush committee, despite their ingenuity, could not have arranged that convenience, the proceedings were at best unconventional and inexplicable, particularly in a college devoted to the higher arts...
Another evidence of the University's upright attitude is her attempt to enforce literally a "four square" policy upon the denizens of Widener by making them execute right angle turns in their perambulations to the library. Not only does the management of the snow-shovelers brigade wait until the snow on Widener's steps has packed into ice, but it insists on clearing only the central wooden approach...